accordingly, possesses great value, as the language
was one of considerable extent, covering, according to Mr. Taylor's
estimate, a district one hundred and seventy miles long by eighty broad.

The late W.W. Turner, who examined the work, says in a brief notice
addressed to the Historical Magazine (vol. 1, p. 206): "The Mutsun
language is clearly the same with the _Rumsen_ or _Runsien_ (the
Achastlian of De la Manon); one of the two spoken at the mission of San
Carlos, and with that of the mission of La Soledad, further to the
south. A considerable degree of resemblance appears also in the language
of the _Olhones_ (or _Costanos_) on the Bay of San Francisco; and a
fainter one further north in the San Rafael, and also in the _Olamentke_
or _Bodegan_ language."

On the cover of the manuscript is the following note, of considerable
importance in instituting comparisons: "Copia de la lengua Mutsun en
estilo Catalan a causa la escribio un Catalan. La Castellana usa de la
fuerza de la pronunciacion de letras de otro modo en sa alfabeto. Ve el
original intitulado Gramatica California." The Catalans pronounce _ch_
hard and _j_ like the Germans.

Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta was then, it would seem, a Catalan. He
came to California, it is said, about 1810, and was for many years
missionary at San Juan Bautista. About 1830 he had, however, become very
infirm and broken in health, yet then new troubles came, and in the
political changes, which struck a death blow to the missions, the aged
missionary was driven from one refuge to another, still apparently
continuing his literary labor. He finally died at the mission of Santa
Inez in 1842.

J.G.S.

INTRODUCCION

A LA

GRAMATICA MUTSUN.

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Al Idioma de estos Indios, le faltan las letras siguientes: _b, d, k, f,
r_, fuerte, _v_ consonante, y _x_.

CAPITULO I.

De la Analogia, o partes de la Oracion.

De las Declinaciones del Nombre Substantivo.

Las Declinaciones de los nombres substantivos son tantas como
terminaciones tienen los mismos Nombres: unos acaban en _es_, como
_eyes_; otros en _an_, como _anan_; otros en _ec_, como _irec_; otros
en _us_, como _rus_; otros en _a_, como _rina_; otros en _el_, como
_mogel_; otros en _ag_, como _rag_; otros en _o_, como _coro_; otros
en _ar_, como _sacar_; otros en _or_, como _por_; otros en _oi_, como
_jocoi_; otros en _ur_, como _juppur_; otros en _os_, como _j